Sunday 6/28,1st day,Quoting Bee (for "fun")
Hannah's grouping for the Quoting Bee. There are 153 quizzers at Nationals but possibly not all wanted to participate in the Bee. Either way there were too many kids to all be in one group so they were split into 4 groups with the top 2 in each group moving on to the final.
It's hard to know how far Hannah would have gotten had she not been called wrong on a verse. I didn't catch nor did the judges but she said she quoted the right verse but because of a typo she was called wrong. The same thing happened in another group to an AZ quizzer. By the time it was caught, it was too late to do anything about. Oh well...
The girls before their first day of quizzing in the preliminary rounds which determine if you're in the championship bracket or challenger bracket.
The big news is in the title but you can read on if you want the little details. We got to the Hyatt downtown on Sunday morning for a celebrations service followed by the Quoting Bee. After the Quoting Bee we went for lunch and headed home for our luggage & food since I didn't want to have cold stuff sit too long while we waited for our room to be ready.
We had told the front desk we were there but knew our room probably wasn't ready at 9:15am. They said they'd call when it was. By the time we left to go home for our stuff we still didn't get a call. By the time we got back to the hotel, still no call. By now it was past check in time so it should be ready & we think they just forgot to call. We found out the the guests before us hadn't even checked out yet. So instead of fixing this problem a few hours ago, the front desk now has to fix it while we wait in front of them. We got another room rather quickly & the clerk got my drift when I asked about an extra fridge in the room and offered to have a second fridge brought up at no charge for the week. We were nice & patient but he understood I wanted that for the inconvenience. It came in handy with our cold foods for lunches that week & all the water we went through.
So we get to our room & settle in and kill time. There was an ice cream social that night and then the officials meeting where I'd find out where to go the next morning for the first day of quizzing.
Monday is the day of preliminary round which determine if you're in the "championship" bracket meaning you will place 1-20 or in the "challenger" bracket meaning you'll place 21-40. The girlz won 6 and lost 1 on Monday which put them in the championship bracket. Their one loss was to the team that had won Nationals last year and the year before. We didn't know it then but it was also the team that would win this year as well. A 3-peat for them. No biggie as the "worst" they can place is 20th which would be an amazing feat for a team at their first appearance at Nationals. I would have been thrilled with 40th place because there are hundreds of teams in the nation & being one of the top 40 teams is an accomplishment in itself. But 40th is not good enough for the girls so we press on. The next 2 days of quizzing will be tougher and more losses will be experienced. More pictures & info next....
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